Dear New Car Owner Thank you for selecting Fiat and congratulations on your choice of a Fiat 600. We have written this handbook to help you get to know all your new Fiat 600’s features and use it in the best pos- sible way. You should read it right through before taking to the road for the first time. You will find information, tips and important warnings regarding the driving of the car to help you derive the max- imum from your 600’s technical features. You will also find very valuable tips for your own safety, the car’s well- being and about how to protect the environment. The enclosed Fiat Warranty Booklet list the services that Fiat offers its Customers: • the Warranty Certificate with terms and conditions for maintaining its validity • the range of additional services available to Fiat Customers. Best regards and good motoring. This Owner Handbook describes all the Fiat 600 versions. As a consequence, you should consider only the information which is related to the engine and bodywork version of the car you purchased. 1 MUST BE READ! REFUELLING Refuel petrol engine vehicles with unleaded petrol, octane rating (RON) no lower than 95. The use of other products or mixtures may irreparably damage the engine with invalidation of the warranty due K to the damage caused. ENGINE START-UP Make sure the handbrake is pulled up; put the gear lever into neutral; press the clutch pedal down to the floor without touching the accelerator; turn the ignition key to AVV and release it as soon as the engine starts. PARKING OVER INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL When functioning normally, the catalytic converter reaches high temperatures. For this reason do not park ┮ the vehicle over inflammable material, grass, dry leaves, pine needles, etc.: fire hazard. PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT A system for continuously monitoring emission system components to ensure greater environmental protec- U tion is fitted in your vehicle. 2 ELECTRICAL ACCESSORIES If, after buying the vehicle, you decide to add electrical accessories (that will gradually drain the battery), visit a Fiat Dealership. They can calculate the overall electrical requirement and check that the vehicle's electric ▵ system can support the required load. CODE card Keep the code card in a safe place, not in the vehicle. You should always keep the electronic code written on the CODE card with you in case you need to carry out an emergency start-up procedure. SCHEDULED SERVICING Correct maintenance of the vehicle is essential for ensuring it stays in tip-top condition and safeguards its safe- ty features, its environmental friendliness and low running costs for a long time to come. THE OWNER HANDBOOK CONTAINS … … information, tips and important warnings regarding the safe, correct driving of your vehicle, and its mainte- nance. Pay particular attention to the symbols " (personal safety) # (environmental protection) â (vehicle well-being). 3 SAFE AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY DRIVING Safety and respect for the environment are the guidelines inspiring the Fiat 600 project from the beginning. Thanks to its design, 600 has passed extremely strict safety tests. The Fiat 600, from this point of view, is ranked at the top levels for its class anticipating the parameters of the future. Moreover, the constant strive towards new and efficient solutions for environmental protection makes your 600 a model to be imitated also from this point of view. All versions are equipped with environmental-friendly devices which cut down harmful emissions, as per legis- lation in force. 4 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR THE SIGNS TO HELP YOU DRIVE CORRECTLY The signs you see on this page are very important. They highlight those parts of the handbook where, more than anywhere else, you should stop for a minute and read carefully. As you can see, each sign has a different symbol to make it immediately clear and easy to identify the subjects in the different areas: Personal safety. Protecting the environment. The car’s wellbeing. Important: total or partial failure to This shows you the correct proce- Important. Total or partial failure to follow these instructions can place dri- dures to follow to ensure that the car follow these instructions will result in ver, passengers or others in serious does not harm the environment. the risk of serious damage to the car danger. and may invalidate the warranty as well. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR 5 GGEETTTTIINNGG TTOO KKNNOOWW YYOOUURR CCAARR SYMBOLS THE FIAT CODE The keys fig. 1 SYSTEM The following keys are provided with Special coloured labels have been at- the car: tached near or actually on some of To further protect your car from at- – two keys A if the car is not the components of your Fiat 600. tempted theft, it has been fitted with These labels bear symbols that remind equipped with remote controlled an electronic engine immobiliser sys- electrical door locking system; you of the precautions to be taken as tem called “Fiat CODE”, which is au- regards that particular component. tomatically activated when the ignition – two keys A and two remote con- key is removed. The ignition keys, in trols B if the car is equipped with re- fact, are fitted with an electronic de- mote controlled electrical door lock- vice that transmits a coded signal to ing system. the Fiat CODE control unit; only if this signal is recognised can the engine be started. The modulated signal is a password. Only if the control unit recognises the key can the engine be started. P4Q00200 fig. 1 6 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR A - The key with a blue grip is used – front side: DUPLICATING KEYS for: A - the electronic code to be used When you ask for extra keys, re- – starting for emergency starting; member that all the keys, both the – unlocking and locking the doors new ones and those you already pos- – boot tailgate (VAN versions only) B - the mechanical key code; sess, must be stored in the memory – unlocking and locking the fuel tank (up to a maximum of 7). Go to your cap Fiat Dealership, taking all the keys – deactivating the passenger side – reverse side: in your possession and the CODE airbag. C - the spaces for any remote card with you. B - – Remote control for electrical control stickers. The Fiat Dealership may ask you door locking system. Keep the CODE card in a safe place. to demonstrate that you own the car. The CODE card fig. 2 is also sup- Make sure you have the CODE card The codes of any keys that are not plied with the keys and bears the fol- with you at all times as it is essential if available when the new storage proce- lowing: you have to perform an emergency dure is carried out will be deleted from start-up. the memory to prevent any lost or stolen keys being used to start the car. U.K. Vehicle only At the behest of the motor Insurance Companies the CODE card for the emergency start- ing and replacement of keys are not provided. If you need assistance please contact your nearest Fiat Dealer- P4Q00028 ship, or telephone Free Phone 0800717000. fig. 2 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR 7 OPERATION If you are still unable to start the en- IMPORTANT Each key provided gine, use the emergency starting pro- with the car has its own code, differ- Each time the ignition key is turned cedure (see IN AN EMERGENCY) and ent from all the others, which must be to STOP, or PARK, the protection take your car to the nearest Fiat stored in the memory of the system system will automatically immobilise Dealership as soon as possible. control unit. the engine. When the car is travelling and the When the key is turned to MAR to key is at MAR: start the engine: ¢ ¢ 1) if the warning light comes on All the keys (originals and 1) if the code is recognised the while the car is moving, this means duplicates) and the warning light on the instrument panel that the system is running a self-test CODE card must be will flash briefly; this means the pro- (e.g. due to a voltage drop); handed over to the new owner tection system has recognised the key when selling the car. code and deactivates the immobiliser, 2) if the warning light ¢ flashes turn the key to AVV, and the engine when the key is in MAR the car is not will start; protected by the Immobiliser. Contact ¢ your Fiat Dealership and get them 2) if the warning light stays on, to store the codes of all the keys in the code has not been recognised. In the memory. this case, turn the key to STOP po- sition and then turn it back to MAR; IMPORTANT The electronic if the engine remains immobilised, try components inside the key may be with the other keys provided. damaged if the key is subjected to sharp knocks. 8 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR THE REMOTE Ministerial homologation REPLACING THE BATTERIES CONTROL In accordance with the legislation fig. 4 covering radio frequencies in force in If when the remote control button The remote control has a button A- each country, we should like to point is pressed the doors are not fig. 3 and a led B to turn door lock- out that: locked/unlocked or the performed ing on; the button activates the con- – the market-specific homologation operation signal (indicator lights on) trol and the led flashes while the numbers are listed at the back of this does not appear, change the battery, transmitter is sending the code to the handbook (homologation fiche are using spare batteries of the same kind, receiver.